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a PITTSBURGH,Pa. —
'•Teachers and school board offi
cials in California, Pa., approved
C tentative contract and classes
$vere resumed Monday for
:“2,400 students idled by a bitter
;$2-day strike — the longest pub
lic school walkout in state his-
; >ory.
A “Now we teachers can go back
;{o school and this tragedy, which
ighould never have happened, is
jit an end because we have a
signed, equitable agreement,”
California Area Education Asso
ciation spokeswoman Patricia
|3rady said late Sunday.
The agreement was reached
about 8:30 p.m. Sunday and the
district’s 76 teachers ratified the
contract by voice vote about
three hours later.
School board solicitor Oliver
Hormell said the full school
board would meet to ratify the
tentative pact “as fast as possi
ble,” but did not specify a date.
In Ohio, the strike by Lake
Local school district teachers in
Stark County entered its 29th
day Monday with no settlement
in sight.
Union chief Rodney Bird
said, “The board gave us an
offer and we countered that
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one. The talks were recessed
(Saturday) by the mediator.”
All but 20 of the 3,700-pupil
system’s 140 teachers struck Jan.
3 over wage demands. Satur
day’s negotiations were the first
since Jan. 19.
The end of the strike came at
a Sunday night news conference
at Pittsburgh’s State Office
Building, when William Han
nan, a retired labor lawyer who
served as fact-finder in the dis
pute, held up a document,
saying “I wish to announce that
we have arrived at an agree
ment.”
“I hold in my hand an agree
ment signed by both parties. It is
the entire contract. This is it for
the next four years,” said
Hannan.
No details of the pact were
revealed.
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